On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I would like emerge -epv @system to be a fairly contained set of >> packages. (If possible like it was when I first built the system a >> mere 5 weeks ago...) It seems out of control on my system these days >> as it wants to emerge 242 packages. One major contributor is not using >> a global -cups use flag in make.conf which would reduce it to 178. >> That was added to figure out why Gnome didn't see Sups printers at >> all. Sure, I would then have to turn on cups for certain packages but >> that's OK with me. However I still see cairo, icedtea-bin, virtual >> java stuff, alsa-libs, and a bunch of x11-proto files so it doesn't >> feel like @system stuff to me >> >> 1) Where is the 'system' or '@system' specification on my machine? >> >> 2) If you folks run emerge -epv @system then how machine packages do you see? > > I believe it all depends on the profile you're using. If you're using > a desktop profile maybe that's why it's calling in GUI toolkits and > stuff... >
Thanks Paul. I hadn't thought of that and I think you're correct. I played a bit with changing profiles and then looking at what emerge -epv @system would or would not do. It's clearly related. In the end I wonder if this is a lost cause? If the packages I run really require these flags then they are all going to get built the same way. I'd prefer that @system was simple and that @world showed how I had changed the system to meet my needs, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort at this point to get there. Cheers, Mark
